Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Collection Development, Accelerated

Impatience Has Its Reward: Books Are Rolled Out Faster. (The New York Times, 2/10/2014)

Print headline:  Short-Order Book Release Follow the Lead of Binge TV.   While the television industry has begun catering to impatient audiences by releasing entire series at once, the book business is upending its traditional timetable by encouraging a kind of binge reading, releasing new works by a single author at an accelerated pace.


Publication date:  Feb. 4, 2014

Book 2:  Authority, to be published in May 2014.
Book 3:  Acceptance, to be published in September 2014.

LINKcat status.  25 holds on 7 copies.  Not exactly "wowie-zowie" status.

Amazon best-seller status:  955.

Amazon customer reviews:  35, with an average of 3.7 out of 5.

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